Three Huge Novels

<p>In 1931 while on holiday in Arcachon Huidobro and the Franco-German artist and writer Hans (Jean) Arp together wrote <em>Tres novelas exemplares</em> (Three Exemplary Novels - no doubt a reference to the <em>Exemplary Novels</em> by Cervantes to which of course they bear no resemblance at all) a set of wild quasi-surrealist stories. In 1932 Huidobro offered the set to a publisher in Barcelona but was told that the book was too short. Accordingly he wrote two further stories on his own and the whole volume was then titled <em>Tres inmensas novelas</em>. Which are therefore not three not huge and also not novels. Nothing came of a publication in Spain at that stage and the book was to appear in 1935 Santiago Huidobro by then having returned to his homeland. This volume offers all five stories in a bilingual format and the cover is <em>almost</em> a copy of the one used in the first edition. The text is bilingual throughout.</p>